Eric Metaxas Announces His Support for Carol Swain in Nashville’s Special Mayoral Election

Best-selling author and syndicated radio host Eric Metaxas announced his support for former Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain in Nashville’s special mayoral election in a Facebook post on Saturday afternoon.

“I am deeply honored and moved by Eric Metaxas’s endorsement of my mayoral campaign,” Swain said in a statement released by her campaign on Saturday.

“This is a vote of confidence in my ability to assemble a strong integrity-based team that will apply common sense solutions to meet the needs of neglected citizens of Nashville. We look forward to creating a government that works with citizens and not against them,” Swain added.

The special election to replace disgraced former Nashville/Davidson County Mayor Megan Barry will be held on May 24, just 39 days from today.

In October, Metaxas visited Middle Tennessee for a speaking engagement.

Metaxas, is also the author of the New York Times best-seller Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, among other well received books. He is the third nationally known leader to endorse Swain in the week and a half since she announced her candidacy for Mayor of Nashville.

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[…] Among the nationally known figures who have endorsed her campaign for mayor are conservative film maker and author Dinesh D’Souza, radio legend Dick Bott, and best-selling author and syndicated radio host Eric Metaxas. […]